About the Author
Originsby Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle University, and Kathleen Gibson, University of Texas Houston
Maggie Tallerman is Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has spent her Professional life in North East England, having previously taught for 21 years at Durham University. Her Research interests centre on the Origins and evolution of syntax and morphology; modern Brythonic Celtic syntax and morphology; and Language typology. Her publications include Understanding Syntax (Hodder/OUPUSA, 1998; 3rd edn. 2011); with Robert D. Borsley and David Willis, The Syntax of Welsh (CUP, 2007); and, as editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (OUP, 2005). She is also the Editor of the series Palgrave Modern Linguistics.
Kathleen Gibson is Professor Emerita, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Houston. Her co-edited Books include, with Sue T. Parker, Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes (CUP 1990); with Tim Ingold, Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution (CUP 1993); with Paul Mellars, Modelling the Early Human Mind (McDonald Archaeological Institute 1996); and, with Dean Falk, Evolutionary Anatomy of the Human Neocortex (CUP 2001). She is the co-editor with James R. Hurford of the series, Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language.
Contributors:
Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle University
Kathleen R. Gibson, University of Texas Houston
Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University
Michael A. Arbib, University of Southern California
Amy L. Bauernfeind, George Washington University
Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii
Cedric Boeckx, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA)
Rudolf Botha, University of Stellenbosch
Robbins Burling, University of Michigan
Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth
Rebecca L. Cann, University of Hawaii
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury
Nick Chater, Warwick Business School
Dorothy L. Cheney, University of Pennsylvania
Morton H. Christiansen, Cornell University
Frederick K. Coolidge, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Michael C. Corballis, University of Auckland
Bart de Boer, University of Amsterdam
Francesco d'Errico, University of Bordeaux
Frans B. M. de Waal, University of Utrecht
Karl C. Diller, University of Hawaii
Merlin Donald, Queens University
Robin I. M. Dunbar, University of Oxford
Dean Falk, School for Advanced Research in Sante Fe
W. Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
Katharine Graf Estes, University of California, Davis
Stevan Harnad, Hungarian Academy of Science
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
William D. Hopkins, Agnes Scott College
James R. Hurford, University of Edinburgh
Vincent M. Janik, University of St. Andrews
Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh
Chris Knight,
Tania Kuteva, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf
Daivd Lightfoot, Georgetown University
John L. Locke, City University of New York
Ann MacLarnon, Roehampton University
Peter F. MacNeilage, The University of Texas
Alan Mann, Princeton University
Steven Mithen, University of Reading
Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
Brigitte Pakendorf, Max Planck Research for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Irene M. Pepperberg, Harvard University
Amy S. Pollock, Gallaudet University
Camilla Power, University of East London
Paul T. Roberge, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert M. Seyfarth, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Slater, University of St. Andrews
Katie Slocombe, University of York
Kenny Smith, University of Edinburgh
Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Haskins Laboratories
Szabolcs Számadó, Loránd University
Eörs Szathmáry, Loránd University
Marian Vanhaeren, CNRS
Jacques Vauclair, University of Provence
Wendy K. Wilkins, New Mexico State University
Bernard A. Wood, George Washington University
Thomas Wynn, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Klaus Zuberbühler, University of St. Andrews